I apologize if the solution is obvious. I think I looked everywhere, but can’t find a solution to my issue. How do I get automatic update notifications in the Gnome DE for 13.2 without actually pressing the Package Updater manually.
In 13.1 Gnome, system updates will automatically show in notifications and give me a “heads up” that there are some. Is there a setting somewhere that I’m missing? The Notifications setting seems to be turned on. Is there a conflict somewhere? There seems to be so many ways to actually update a system, that I’m wondering that this might be the case.
On Fri 27 Feb 2015 02:36:01 PM CST, Cuttlefish wrote:
Hello fellow Geekos,
I apologize if the solution is obvious. I think I looked everywhere,
but can’t find a solution to my issue. How do I get automatic update
notifications in the Gnome DE for 13.2 without actually pressing the
Package Updater manually.
In 13.1 Gnome, system updates will automatically show in notifications
and give me a “heads up” that there are some. Is there a setting
somewhere that I’m missing? The Notifications setting seems to be
turned on. Is there a conflict somewhere? There seems to be so many
ways to actually update a system, that I’m wondering that this might be
the case.
Thanks for your time.
Hi
If it’s set to notify, then all should be good (you can also set to
auto download). Fire up gnome-software and check on the updates tab.
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Thanks malcolmlewis. I don’t understand where to look. Also, I don’t use the gnome-software app to update. I use the Package Updater to update( or zypper). As I said, there appear to be multiple ways to update…I guess it is a bit confusing for opensuse noobs like me.
This is an example from my 13.1 installation. This will appear automatically and that is what I would like. On my 13.2 install I must retrive this manually.
Maybe I’m looking for an auto download? I’m not sure, except that it should look something like this.
Hi
If the notifications are on and ‘on’ in the list, then it should appear… there is a cron job (packagekit-background.cron) which runs every 24 hours, which starts from ~15 minutes from the last boot. In 13.2 it’s off, maybe in 13.1 it’s on?
I see from zypper there are some updates, will reboot my test system and see if it pops up…
Although, I’m not really sure what I’m looking for. When I compare the above with the packagekit-background from 13.1, I see that the SLEEP_MAX is different. Could that be a clue?
packagekit_background from 13.2:
#!/bin/bash
# Copyright (C) 2008 Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com>
#
# Some material taken from yum-cron, Copyright 2007 Alec Habig <ahabig@umn.edu>
#
# Licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
-f /etc/sysconfig/packagekit-background ] && . /etc/sysconfig/packagekit-background
# are we disabled?
if "$ENABLED" = "no" ]; then
exit 0
fi
# set default for SYSTEM_NAME
-z "$SYSTEM_NAME" ] && SYSTEM_NAME=$(hostname)
PKTMP=$(mktemp /var/run/packagekit-cron.XXXXXX)
PKCON_OPTIONS="--background --noninteractive --plain"
# wait a random amount of time to avoid hammering the servers
-z "$SLEEP_MAX" ] && SLEEP_MAX=$RANDOM
sleep $(( $RANDOM % $SLEEP_MAX + 1 ))
# do action
if "$CHECK_ONLY" = "yes" ]; then
pkcon $PKCON_OPTIONS get-updates &> $PKTMP
PKCON_RETVAL=$?
else
pkcon $PKCON_OPTIONS update &> $PKTMP
PKCON_RETVAL=$?
fi
# this is when seomthing useful was done
if $PKCON_RETVAL -ne 5 ]; then
# send email
if -n "$MAILTO" ]; then
mail -s "System updates available: $SYSTEM_NAME" $MAILTO < $PKTMP
else
# default behavior is to use cron's internal mailing of output from cron-script
cat $PKTMP
fi
fi
rm -f $PKTMP
if “$CHECK_ONLY” = “yes” ]; then
pkcon $PKCON_OPTIONS get-updates &> $PKTMP
PKCON_RETVAL=$?
else
pkcon $PKCON_OPTIONS update &> $PKTMP
PKCON_RETVAL=$?
fi
this is when seomthing useful was done
if $PKCON_RETVAL -ne 5 ]; then
# send email
if -n “$MAILTO” ]; then
mail -s “System updates available: $SYSTEM_NAME” $MAILTO < $PKTMP
else
# default behavior is to use cron’s internal mailing of output from cron-script
cat $PKTMP
fi
fi
I recommend distros have only one way to perform graphical updates by default, to avoid weird confusion like this, but openSUSE really likes choice I suppose.
